Toon Zone Talkback - "The Smurfs" Trailer Online

I can understand if you didn't like what you saw in the trailer, but there's no way that one movie that you're not being forced to acknowledge can ruin your memories of a franchise that you love. It's just one interpretation of the franchise, which is all that the Hanna Barbera series was. Your memories will be fine.

As for the Michael Bay line, I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not.
 
I agree with u and also, How can a small trailer that showed no story or anything ruin a movie for someone when the trailer shows no story, plot, etc? Its a teaser trailer. I dont see how someone can judge a movie by a teaser trailer. :yawn:
 
I agree..... When UP's teaser came out, You guys probably thought it looked kiddish & stupid.... but, now you see that UP is one of the best of 2009 (According to me, better than Avatar):narf:
 
I honestly don't know how the feel about this. I mean, sure the Smurfs look creepy in CGI, but then again, I never really watched any episodes of the Smurfs. I think I'll wait until I see a full trailer for it before passing judgement.
 
You can just feel by the marketing how the whole soul of the property was ripped to shreds to try to make it more 'hip'.

Smurfs aren't HIP! They're not 'trendy', they're homely nice folks, they're like country music. They're good, we like 'em but they aren't 'Hip'.

Part of the appeal is really the whole 'perfect community' the Smurfs got going on and how they defend it through cunning and guile in spite of their diminutive nature. That's what its all about. :yawn:

But let it be know that I would rather be proven HORRIBLY wrong. But this is HOLLYWOOD we're talking about here.
 
Very good point. Hollywood has a tendency to look down on anything that isn't hip, or trendy. So they try to force it on properties, or genres that never were hip, nor needed to be in the first place so that they can 'fit in' with the gratuitous hipsters out there. And apparently, the Smurfs aren't the only ones going through an identity crisis in tinsel town right now.

http://coryscuriosities.blogspot.com/2010/06/edgy-alert.html
 
I dunno...I remember back in the 90's they released a CD with the Smurfs on it singing popular songs at the time like the Chipmunks. I was overseas when I saw this, so I have no idea if it ever came to America.

As much as I think this looks horrible, the Chipmunks movie ended up being an enjoyable family movie despite it's horrible teaser, so I'm going to stay a cautiously optimistic.
 
I'm also picturing a scene where the Smurfs somehow find some clothes in order to ~*blend in*~, and we see them making hip poses while "Bad to the Bone" plays in the background :yawn:
 
Now to be fair the idea of the Smurfs in the modern world is fun. I just don't trust Hollywood to make it fun.

I also have a concern about the future of the property.

Hollywood doesn't release movies that it can turn into franchises, at least not anymore (unless Clint Eastwood's involved) and I assume the goal here is to kickstart a series of Smurf movies and turn it into a profitable franchise (in America) once again.

And here's the thing that bothers me...THIS is the first movie. The first movie isn't about introducing the Smurf's own universe... its about ripping them OUT of it and putting them in a different environement. To a lot of kids THIS will be the first version of the Smurfs they'll know.

Basically the problem I have with this movie plot is...it is not a first movie in a franchise...it's a sequel to a movie that doesn't exist!

How can you establish a franchise's identity like this?

I fear that by the end of the movie we might find the Smurfs perpetually stuck in Manathan and establishing a new village somewhere in Central Park -.- or going to live with Neil Patrick Harris in East Village :p

If we don't get any 'trendy Smurf' in this one, wait until the sequel where they've been in New-York for years and learn how to swear like cabbies stuck in traffic o.o


As an aside I hope they give the Central Park obelisk magical properties and involve it in the plot, just because Central Park is such a great location not to use it.
 
Yeah, when I first saw the trailer I thought of Enchanted right away. :sad:


While I'm just a moderate fan of the show, I just don't think this will do it justice. I'll probably see it anyways, but I'll wait for more trailers.
 
I'm not a fan of the show, but that was just horrible. It almost seems like Hollywood's not even trying anymore. But as long as they get butts in the seats, they don't care, right? *sigh*
 
The trailer didn't leave me with disgust, more apathy. The concept of cartoon characters lost in the real world has been done before, not just in Enchanted but in many other movies, and the trailer didn't excite me about the film. It should be noted, though, I rarely watched the Smurfs TV show as a kid, so that's probably why I'm not crying blasphemy like some of you.

That said, it is distressing how many movies are being made or remade of existing properties nowadays, whether it be old TV series or newspaper strips or comic books or heck, even old MOVIES. True, this has happened in every decade to some extent, but it feels like Hollywood is playing it particularly safe right now, partially because of the economy (after all, why risk money on a new property that might flop?).
 
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